Lol at least here they are all smoking again. Or vaping, in vanilla-strawberry flavor with vapes that can be recharged but not refilled and are then discarded
Loads of people have given up smoking through sheer willpower. Some people just didn’t start smoking straight away in the morning, so the giving up isn’t a big deal to them.
Following a couple of years starting from those COVID days sitting for a morning smoke on the balcony, I gave up smoking by vaping, and gave up vaping via a change in scenery, change in routine and you know, just by being on holiday. At least two times.
When I got back, I got whacked by what I call triggers…a huge number of them nearly every hour. Previously I gave in to these, but I’ve learned the stupid way that nicotine psychology is madly powerful, and once you start to recognise you’re just getting triggered for the hundredth time, you just get on with it.
Nicotine is pretty demonic when you think about it.
This is not entirely correct for reasons already cited, but I’ll add this:
Government and healthcare providers have been driving anti-smoking campaigns for a looong time to the point that all cigarette packages are now olive green with gigantic content warnings and pictures of dead babies, and are prohibitively expensive. Also you won’t get some medical treatment if you admit that you smoke or, to a lesser degree, ingest nicotine in other ways.
It’s a bit short-sighted to say that the generations that grow up in this athmosphere performed an “insane feat of strength” instead of just growing up in a reality that makes it much harder to fall for cigarettes/nicotine.
It’s not exactly olive green IIRC, but some other shade that is scientifically proven to be one of the most disgusting colors to the average person
It’s a pretty standard type of military green.
But yeah, they probably did a totally insane amount of research on that.
PS: I used to joke about collecting the different messages and pictures like football cards. The website this pic is from seems to be doing it in earnest…
An entire generation has not rejected smoking.
They replaced smoking with vaping and other ROAs. I’m pretty sure the past decade+, % of teens addicted to nicotine would be far greater than teen smokers in the 90s.
I’m in my mid 40s and I’m constantly bombarded with Vaping PSA ads on Reddit. I don’t vape.
Source? Because no way that can be true
It’s my own estimation.
Ya but what pisses me off is that vaping ≠ nicotine. Secondhand vapour is far less of a problem than secondhand tobacco smoke, and that’s before factoring in nicotine-free flavours. Banning it everywhere in the same thread as cigarettes is ridiculous and shouldn’t be respected.
Ok… But most people aren’t vaping non-nicotine juice. You’re technically correct that it exists, but who cares? That’s not the issue, the issue is that it has hooked a new generation of smokers.
i’m gen z and like 80% of my friends smoke and ~95% vape
I’m a millennial and went from all my friends smoked to everyone quit smoking to now everyone smokes. About 90% of gils i met on tinder in tge past 5 years smoked. Someone asked me why i didn’t filter out smokers. Well, not really a whole lot left tbh.
Ya i didn’t quit smoking because of hygiene or health reasons, I quit because I was told it would impede the effects of feminising HRT. If i wasn’t a girl I would be smoking rn
Girlboss
n=1 makes this an anecdote of personal experience. So ya know - not relevant
We’re at a bar not a science symposium.
Skill issue
Insufferable twattery issue.
Until they made the nicotine taste like Monster Energy drinks, anyway. Don’t look at zyns.
Do you think there’s nicotine in Monster Energy?
Forever is a pretty long time. Can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone make a bold statement like that.
Meh, where I live few people smoke, but I still see people that smoke every other day. There’s still cig butts everywhere. I was hiking in the forest and this dude walking his dog was smoking, I saw him flick his butt right into the nature he was enjoying. And the number of people vaping is huge, even very young folk who walk around with vapes.
I was in France recently and everyone smoked there, it was like going back in time 20 years. Ashtrays everywhere, everything stank and people were chain smoking non stop.
Just because something has gotten less popular locally, doesn’t mean an entire generation has given it up. It’s just a fad not to smoke cigarettes right now, a fad that might change in the future, given how addictive it is.
Same in Germany. People don’t even seem to realise the dangers of it, or how they’re harming others. They just think it’s their “right” and the government agrees.
Former smoker here: I don’t understand the hype around quitting and why people act like it’s so addictive and start buying nicotine patches.
It’s not like you wake up at night because you need a smoke. I once read that caffeine is more addictive than nicotine. You get a headache for a day or so and then you’re done with it.
Yes, smoking is a strong habit, but that’s it. Stop pretending and just quit if you want to. Your body is not craving it, your mind is.
On the tram today there was a woman at the door who lit her cigarette even before the door was open. Her friend had to take it off her. Not addictive my foot.
It’s not like you wake up at night because you need a smoke.
You are describing something millions of people have gone through
‘My experience is the only possible experience.’
Ohhhh it is just the mind!! Guys, I think we found the solution. Here we are, thinking smoking is a physical addiction, then comes this guy along and just solves the problem.
It solved the problem for me, so I wanted to share. Didn’t think it would be so controversial.
It is because you are downplaying the mental addiction and how hard it is for most people to quit smoking. Studies show that most people trying to quit aren’t successful, and you are basically saying it’s because they are just weak.
Your body is not craving it, your mind is.
I mean…yeah, but that’s really underselling how much mind can controll the body.
Sadly I have to live with my mind. And evem if I’ve never woken up at night because of tobacco I have stayed awake because of it.
That’s a cute little n=1 anecdote you’ve got there
Absolutely meaningless in terms of data, but still just absolutely adorable that you think it’s relevant. Do you feel the need to tell us any other stories?
